caa a22 4500 463246314 CHVBK 20180405153327.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10578-007-0046-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10578-007-0046-9 Relationship between Defenses, Personality, and Affect During a Stress Task in Normal Adolescents [Elektronische Daten] [Hans Steiner, Sarah Erickson, Peggy MacLean, Sanja Medic, Belinda Plattner, Cheryl Koopman] Objective: Although there are extensive data on the relationship between personality and stress reactivity in adults, there is little comparable empirical research with adolescents. This study examines the simultaneous relationships between long term functioning (personality, defenses) and observed stress reactivity (affect) in adolescents. Methods: High school students (N=169; mean age 16; 73 girls) were asked to participate in two conditions of the Stress Induced Speech Task (SIST): Free Association and Stressful Situation. Immature and mature defenses, distress and restraint personality dimensions, and negative and positive affect were examined. Results: Greater reported use of immature defenses was significantly associated with negative affect, whereas greater reported use of mature defenses was significantly associated with greater positive affect. Although personality style was also a significant predictor of negative affect across two out of three conditions, defenses were better overall predictors of affect than were personality dimensions. Gender was also a significant predictor of negative affect, wherein girls reported more negative affect than boys. Discussion: Defenses and personality style predict affective response during a moderately stressful task. Immature defenses and, to a lesser extent, the distress personality dimension predict mobilization of negative affect, whereas mature defenses predict the reporting of positive affect. These results relate to processes central to psychotherapy: defensive responding, personality style, and affective reactivity during the recounting of stressful events. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Defenses nationallicence Arousal nationallicence Affect nationallicence Personality nationallicence Adolescents nationallicence Steiner Hans Center for Psychiatry and The Law, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, 94305-5719, Stanford, CA, USA aut Erickson Sarah Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA aut MacLean Peggy Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA aut Medic Sanja Center for Psychiatry and The Law, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, 94305-5719, Stanford, CA, USA aut Plattner Belinda Center for Psychiatry and The Law, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, 94305-5719, Stanford, CA, USA aut Koopman Cheryl Center for Psychiatry and The Law, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, 94305-5719, Stanford, CA, USA aut Child Psychiatry and Human Development Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 38/2(2007-08-01), 107-119 0009-398X 38:2<107 2007 38 10578 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-007-0046-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-007-0046-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Steiner Hans Center for Psychiatry and The Law, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, 94305-5719, Stanford, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Erickson Sarah Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- MacLean Peggy Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Medic Sanja Center for Psychiatry and The Law, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, 94305-5719, Stanford, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Plattner Belinda Center for Psychiatry and The Law, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, 94305-5719, Stanford, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Koopman Cheryl Center for Psychiatry and The Law, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, 94305-5719, Stanford, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Child Psychiatry and Human Development Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 38/2(2007-08-01), 107-119 0009-398X 38:2<107 2007 38 10578 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer